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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morgenstern" data-source="post: 1778600" data-attributes="member: 5485">I hope you'll excuse me if a statement that reads "the system only breaks down if you actually try to use it" doesn't exactly inspire confidence. Let me try again. The bum can now buy an infinite umber of sandwhiches. Now. Today. All day. Not one-a-day for the rest of his life. I'm mean, as written, he can buy 5 each for himeself and every one of his friends in the greater upstate NY area. It's not that the sysytem is abstract that bothers me, its that it fails so casually.Would it have been so hard to say that any puchase with a DC more than half your wealth rating knocks a point off? Or 3/4, or whatever. Some sort of scaling break point so there isn't this strange, magic line between 14 and 15 (IIRC)? It shouldn't matter if I buy in bulk or not! If I'm a billionaire, filling out 22 separate mail orders for a car shouldn't bankrupt me. A scaling system would also simultaneously create a range where you are so poor that buying sandwiches might actually represent a permanent drain on your resources.It just seems like the GM is hobbled, in that he can't offer one-time bonuses. That that suitcase full of cash, or any other windfall represents a permanent change. As an abstract "you should be telling stories about something other than money, and here's a tip of the hat to the modern world" system I do get it. Modern stories usually aren't kill them/take their stuff scenarios, so a monetary system of reward probably isn't appropriate. OTOH I don't really appreciate the incredibly juvinille argument that the only alterantive is to track ever dollar and every credit exchange. That's lazy thinking at it's worst. I know that option's bad too, but throwing that out trying to forestall even hinting that the wealth system might be flawed it doesn't convince me that as abstractions go, we couldn't have done better than what was presented.Eh. I'll trouble you no further.</blockquote>

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